An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., The Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, page 432 CARLOS W. SHANE, Notary Public and City Librarian of Vancouver, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 9, 1817, a son of John and Mary (Cosby) Shane. The father was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, December 29, 1785, and died June 3, 1850. His father, Henry Shane, was also a native of Hagerstown, and kept what was known in those days as a tavern. The Shane family located in Maryland early in the seventeenth century. The mother of our subject was born on Cub creek, Louisa county, Virginia, February 28, 1782, and died July 10, 1844. The Cosby ancestors were Colonial settlers of Virginia, and participated in the Revolutionary war. Zachariah Cosby, the grandfather of our subject, was a soldier of Washington's army at the surrender of Cornwallis. He was born in 1754, and died May 27, 1834. Carlos W. Shane, the fourth in a family of six children, four sons and two daughters, received his early education in private schools, and although the educational privileges of those days were indeed meager, yet the foundation was laid for an education received later in life, through the school of experience. On his arrival at man's estate he engaged in teaching for a few years, and later learned and followed bookbinding until 1846. March 4, of that year, he arrived in Oregon City, where he bound the first book ever bound in Oregon, and probably on the coast. Governor Abernethy had published an addition to Webster's spelling book, and Mr. Shane bound about 800 copies. For the first year after his arrival in Oregon he did any and all kinds of work, then engaged to Marcus Whitman to teach school, but for some reason unknown to our subject the agreement was never consummated, and then came the news of the Whitman massacre. Mr. Shane taught school for a time near Oregon City, and in 1848 drifted into boating on the Columbia river to Astoria, using a whale boat, and being fairly successful in this enterprise. In 1850 he located a claim on Lewis and Clarke river, three years later lived on the ground occupied by Lewis and Clarke in 1806-í07, and there found some of the foundation of their cabin, built in the year 1806. The trail over which they had traveled daily to and from the coast, to watch for a vessel, remained perfectly defined, and was several inches deep. Mr. Shane resided on this claim until 1857, then traveled over a large portion of the State of California, engaged in mining, etc.; in 1866 resumed teaching in this State; in 1870 took up a homestead fourteen miles northeast of Vancouver; in 1874 again visited California, Los Angeles county, and five years afterward returned to Vancouver. In 1881 Mr. Shane was appointed Deputy Auditor, filling that position two years, since which time he has been a Notary, and at the present is Librarian of the City Library. Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in October 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer * * * * Notice: These biographies were transcribed for the Washington Biographies Project. Unless otherwise stated, no further information is available on the individual featured in the biographies.